Recent Hiv Vaccine Failure

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Trials of NIH HIV Vaccine Candidate Scaled Down After Failure of Merck Vaccine

Trials of NIH 's Vaccine Research Center 's HIV vaccine candidate will be scaled down after the recent failure of a Merck HIV vaccine candidate, Bloomberg reports (Lauerman, Bloomberg, 3/24). Merck in September 2007 announced it had halted a... Read more »

HIV Vaccine Trial Lessons: What Researchers Learned From the STEP Study's Failure and the RV144 ("Thai") Study's Success

Below is the transcript of a press conference held at CROI 2010 on Feb. 18, in which Nelson Michael, M.D., Ph.D., of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and Morgane Rolland, Ph.D., of the University of Washington-Seattle, discuss the... Read more »

Recent Releases: IAVI Report on Global Impact of AIDS Vaccine, Brief on Advanced Market Commitment for Vaccine Development

The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative recently released a report and brief discussing different aspects of HIV/AIDS vaccine development. Summaries of two of the resources are below. "Estimating the Global Impact of an AIDS Vaccine ": The... Read more »

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Recent prevention failure and efforts to cure the disease part 3 (HIV IS 100% PREVENTABLE TODAY, 2010)

Thanks again. I understand your difficulties in managing a prevention forum since your objective is to put more fear on the disease to lower further infections but the general and widespread opinion of doctors and researchers is that HIV is a...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,Dude, you're spending way too much time on this site and arguing with the wrong guy. Generally you and I agree on most things. It's just that I have the perspective of being HIV infected since January 1991 plus the experience of being... Read more »

Recent prevention failure and efforts to cure the disease part 2 (HIV IS 100% PREVENTABLE TODAY, 2009)

Thanks for your quick response. I have to disagree too on one point. You said that HIV is 100% preventable which is correct but it ignores the nature of human beings. Let me explain. Many actually know the ways of transmission but this leads not...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,Sorry, I have to disagree with your disagreement!The statement that HIV is 100% preventable is completely true and has nothing to do with human nature! It's just a scientific fact that we could prevent all (or essentially all) HIV... Read more »

Recent prevention failure and efforts to cure the disease (CURE, 2009) (PREVENTION, 2009)

With the last microbicide PRO 2000 proven ineffective and the failure of the Thai vaccine it is quite sure that for the next 5 years we will not see anything on the prevention front. Condoms are not the answer since we see the steady increase of new...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,While I agree with much of what you say, I will take exception to several points:1. "It's time to change strategy and not start trials based more on chance than on scientific knowledge." Essentially all approved clinical trials are... Read more »

Recent infection lab work and vaccines

Dear MarkI am a 33yo man from athens greece i test it positive for Hiv(treatment naive) in last june. My labs is as follow 7/5/2007:VL:6290, cd4:1015 cd4%:35.1%,cd8:967 cd8%:33.5%, B cells 18,9%(525)NK cells 6.6%(182).T4/T8 ratio:1.0In 10/11/2007:VL...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

Those numbers look great. It is always difficult to determine when people need treatment given your numbers.There is no problem with getting the pneumovax and influenza vaccines at the same time or 3 days apart. You will get protection equally well... Read more »

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Early HIV Treatment Failure Linked to Didanosine/T

Posted by TwinsDad, 1 Reply

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Aug 23 - The combination of the antiretroviral agents didanosine, tenofovir, and efavirenz is associated with a high virological failure rate in treatment-naive patients with HIV, British investigators report.

Dr. Desmond... Read more »

Know someone who died of PML/Liver Failure?

Posted by ScotCharles, 2 Replies

Hey guys,

Just recently, a number of people I know who have been HIV+ for more than 20 years have died of Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy(PML) and liver failure. I wonder if anyone else had similiar experience?

Cheers,

ScotCharles Read more »

The Failure of Viral Load Tests

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

The Failure of Viral Load Tests
JAMA Study Shakes AIDS Science, Angers HIV Advocates

A nationwide team of orthodox AIDS researchers led by doctors Benigno Rodriguez and Michael Lederman of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland are disputing the... Read more »

HIV Vaccine Scam

Posted by Anonymous, 5 Replies

(article courtesy of RedFlagsDaily.com)

I told you so. I told you so in the scientific literature. I told you so on the internet. I told you that an HIV vaccine would never work.

This week, the long-awaited results from an independent trial of the... Read more »

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